IT Operations Analyst

Marsh McLennan Agency

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Marsh Agency helps people and organizations manage risk and prepare for the future through insurance benefits retirement and wealth management strategies. We believe in hands-on proactive service data-driven insights and understanding how global events can impact local decisions. As a trusted partner we show our clients whats possible and guide them during every step of their journey.

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As an IT Operations Analyst on the IT Strategy & Operations team you will serve as a central hub for enabling strong operational and financial management across the IT organization. You will own core IT financial planning activities (forecasting budgeting and spend management) with a particular focus on outside services and third-party spend. This role will also manage day-to-day vendor relationships and contract administration activities ensuring work is delivered as expected and vendors and contractors are onboarded and offboarded smoothly. The ideal candidate can operate independently bring structure to ambiguity and partner effectively with IT leaders Finance Procurement Legal Accounts Payable and vendors.

Our future colleague.

Wed love to meet you if your professional track record includes these skills:

IT financial planning forecasting & budget management (outside services focus)

• Own the forecasting and budget process for the IT organization with emphasis on outside services / third-party spend.

• Maintain run-rate views and forecast models; identify key drivers risks and opportunities and provide clear variance commentary versus prior forecasts and budgets.

• Partner with IT leaders and cost owners to gather inputs validate assumptions and drive timely submissions for monthly/quarterly cycles.

• Support month-end activities as needed (e.g. accrual tracking invoice timing and forecast updates) in coordination with Finance and Accounts Payable.

• Maintain financial trackers and data integrity across sources (e.g. invoices POs contracts budget trackers); reconcile discrepancies and document assumptions.

• Prepare executive-ready summaries dashboards and talking points that translate financial details into decisions and actions for IT leadership.

• Identify and implement process improvements to streamline budgeting/forecasting and improve transparency of third-party spend.

Vendor management contracting support & performance monitoring

• Manage day-to-day vendor relationship and contract administration activities for IT outside services providers.

• Support new sourcing events (RFIs/RFPs/RFQs) by coordinating requirements gathering documentation organizing responses and supporting evaluation and selection.

• Monitor active vendor engagements to evaluate delivery quality and facilitate renewals

• Support basic spend analysis and vendor reporting to improve cost visibility and identify optimization opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 35 years of experience in technology finance financial planning & analysis (FP&A) IT financial operations vendor management procurement/contract administration or a comparable cross-functional role.

• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining budgets/forecasts performing variance analysis and translating results into clear written commentary and leadership-ready insights.

• Experience managing third-party / outside services spend in an IT organization (professional services managed services SaaS/software cloud or related technology categories).

• Hands-on Excel skills (e.g. pivots lookups data validation reconciliation) and comfort working with imperfect data from multiple sources.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to independently prioritize work and meet recurring deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to coordinate across IT Finance Procurement Legal and vendor partners.

• Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential financial vendor and personnel information.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with forecasting and budgeting tools such as Oracle IBM Apptio etc.

• Experience supporting RFx processes contract renewals and vendor performance reporting.

• Experience building simple dashboards or reporting (e.g. Power BI/Tableau) to improve visibility of spend and vendor performance.

• Experience in financial services insurance or professional services environments.

We know there are excellent candidates who might not check all of these boxes. Dont be shy. If youre close wed be very interested in meeting you.

Valuable benefits.

We value and respect the impact our colleagues make every day both inside and outside of work. Our culture promotes colleague well-being through robust benefits programs and resources professional and personal development opportunities and fulfillment through meaningful work.

Some benefits included in this role are:

• Generous time off including personal and volunteering
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Hybrid OR Remote work
• Charitable contribution match programs
• Stock purchase opportunities

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The applicable base salary range for this role is $90000 to $157500.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience skills training location certifications education and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case addition to the base salary this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits tuition assistance 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Applications will be accepted until:

November 20 2026